Microsoft DirectX 11 will launch simultaneously with Windows 7 at the end of the month. This eleventh iteration of the collection of APIs (Application Programming Interface) will include Direct3D, Direct2D, DirectWrite, DirectDraw, DirectMusic, DirectPlay, DirectSound and the youngest DirectCompute. This will mark the introduction of a second GPGPU API, OpenCL now after less than a year. Windows 7 should take advantage of GPU acceleration on several of its internal applications, but it is on the third party developers expected the biggest performance gains.

CyberLink has announced it will support its software in DirectCompute publishing videos. The announcement came to support the launch of the first DirectX 11 compatible GPUs from AMD / ATI, a partner of CyberLink. Note that the software developers are already compatible with ATI's Stream technology and NVIDIA CUDA.

In related news, AMD / ATI have recently announced that it supports hardware acceleration of the Adobe Flash multimedia platform. The publisher has recently announced version 10.1 of Flash to 2010.NVIDIA has confirmed that this opportunity will bear its own platform acceleration Flash, which originally said at Computex in Taipei last June. The GPU makes more and more useful, and we can only rejoice...